ACTION ALERT: As US Covid Deaths Reach 800,000, Atlantic Essay Asks: Who Cares?
Beyond the clickbait shock value is a sociopathic contempt for others’ lives, a narcissistic dismissal of neighbors devastated by Covid.
‘Moderna Is Trying to Turn This People’s Vaccine Into a Rich People’s Vaccine’
“From the beginning of the pandemic, unfortunately, the US government’s position has been to be extremely deferential to corporate interests.”
US and UK Press Mock New Zealand’s Incredibly Successful Covid Response
US and British media outlets framed New Zealand’s new Covid policy as a recognition of the inevitable failure of an irrational goal.
‘The Anti-Blackness of the US Is Extending to Black Asylum Seekers’
“Processing people and allowing them to come into the country is the best public health policy.”
Peter Maybarduk on Moderna Patent, Tracy Rosenberg on Aaron Swartz Day
Drugs are developed by the government, and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public.
ACTION ALERT: USA Today Stokes Parents’ Fears of Child Vaccination
USA Today’s reporting should lead with the fact that “there are no known serious risks from vaccination and its effectiveness is clear.”
‘You Should Get the Vaccine Despite the Media Telling You You Should’
“The framing of vaccination as a matter of personal choice, rather than as a matter of public health, is a devastating frame.”
David Moore on Manchin’s Conflict, Jim Naureckas on Covid and Media
“We’re going to have a representative of fossil fuel interests crafting the policy that reduces our emissions from fossil fuels.”
NYT: China Needs to Rethink Its Not-Letting-People-Die-From-Covid Policy
Do you feel like you are free of “pandemic fatigue” because you live in a country that has a “higher tolerance of Covid”?
Corporate Media Politicize WHO Investigation on Covid Origins to Vilify China
Orientalist narratives of Chinese secrecy and duplicity seem to be predetermined and unfalsifiable narratives for Western media,
There’s No ‘Vaccine Mandate’—but That Doesn’t Stop WaPo Asking People How They Feel About It
When journalists gin up controversy over lesser measures, they make progress in the fight against Covid that much harder.
US Media Give New Respect to Lab Leak Theory—Though Evidence Is as Lacking as Ever
Despite the sudden media enthusiasm for the lab leak theory, there remains as little compelling evidence that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab as there always has been.
‘Having a Say Can Be Transformative’
“You can have profit-sharing, you can have a living wage. And these are all things we are told that you can’t have in America.”
NYT’s Africa: A Place of Failure and No Leadership
Coverage of Covid-19 in Africa, despite the continent’s relatively low infection rates, is disproportionately grim and macabre.
‘The Modis, the Trumps, the Bolsonaros Come Out of the Wreckage of Neoliberal Policy’
“It’s not just this government; it’s been a long policy of the attrition of…public healthcare.”
Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi
US corporate media don’t seem to see a story worth telling in India, beyond how Modi might hold on to power despite some unfortunate “missteps.”
‘Government Money That’s Gone Into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies’
“People who have less power and less money around the world are the people last in line—and that line is going to be pretty long if you don’t speed up the production.”
Ahmad Abuznaid on Israel/Palestine Apartheid, James Love on Bill Gates & Vaccine Politics
Where elite media present a frozen he said/she said, never-the-twain-shall-meet debate over Israel/Palestine, more and more people see a different way forward.
Math Is Hard—but Vital for Understanding Vaccine Risks
Providing all the numbers is vital, because in a world where both policymakers and individuals are trying to decide whether vaccines are effective and safe, the only way to do so is with math.
Western Media Incite Anti-Asian Racism When They Join in Cold War Against China
Western news outlets have deceptively omitted the centrality of media-promoted Sinophobia to the latest spike in hate crimes toward anyone perceived to be Chinese.
